The carriage stopped again, and there was a noise ahead, as if it had returned to ninety-three again. Kano poked his head out of the carriage and asked, "What happened?" ”

"Sir, a group of people in front of you are surrounding a bank and blocking the road." The coachman replied.

Hearing this, Kano couldn't help but shake his head, and then said, "Ah, Butz, go around again, you have to hurry, I'm going to be late today." Did you know that there are no banks on that road? ”

This morning, Kano had already made several detours on his way to work.

At this time, the crisis has already affected the banks, and once the crisis has affected the banks, the impact on the whole society is obvious. A large number of banks closed their doors because they could not cope with the run, and many small and medium-sized banks began to announce their failures.

Generally speaking, smaller banks are always more willing to offer a slightly higher deposit rate than the larger banks in order to attract depositors. This naturally increases the cost of their operations. And in order to make enough money, they also have to make some more aggressive investments and even speculation. Thus, in the midst of this wave, these small banks, which were engaged in aggressive speculation, first began to fail en masse.

When the banks collapsed, the money depositors put here naturally disappeared. Many people have worked hard all their lives, in order to get a higher interest rate, they have deposited their life savings in those small banks, and as a result, after a few days, these small banks have closed their doors and gone bankrupt, and as for the boss, it is said that they have gone to the Americas with the last bit of money.

The coachman turned the carriage around and was about to take a different path, when a voice reached Kano's ears: "What damned Jews, vampires, are they, who have swallowed all our hard-earned money!" ”

"Damn Jews! We can't just let them go, let's kill all the Jews! Someone shouted.

Hearing this, Kano suddenly frowned. To be honest, Kano didn't have a good impression of Jews, and even Kano himself felt that some Jews really deserved to be guillotined. But that must also be after a trial in court, not an attempt to lynching, as is the case now. Once lynchings are rampant, the Republic will have to go back to the old path of '93.

By this time, the coachman had turned the carriage around and was about to leave. Kano hurriedly shouted, "Stop! ”

The coachman stopped the carriage. Kano opened the door, rolled over and jumped onto the roof of the carriage.

"Citizens, citizens, please listen to me two words!" Kano shouted loudly to the citizens who were preparing to act.

"Who's that?" It was said.

"It's General Carno, it's the Minister of War."

"What Minister of War, isn't it called the Ministry of Peace a long time ago?"

"Don't make a noise, listen to what General Kano has to say."

Seeing that everyone had gathered around and was quiet, Kano asked in a loud voice, "Do you believe in the First Consul?" ”

"Believe!"

"Believe!" People shouted.

"Do you remember the chaos in '93? Do you still want to live like that? Kano continued to ask loudly.

The crowd fell silent.

"I know that a lot of people have suffered undeserved losses in this incident, and I know that some Jews have plundered people like vampires. But since everyone trusts the First Consul, why break his agreement with everyone and use lynching to solve the problem? Why not let the First Consul judge them fairly by law? Kano asked loudly.

"That's right!" It was said.

"What General Kano said makes sense, we should believe in the First Consul, he will definitely help us uphold justice!"

"But the Jews, they may have taken the money with them."

"If so, we have no choice but to count on His Majesty Bonaparte."

"Let's go to the government, go to the government, and plead to Your Majesty." Someone shouted again.

So the crowd changed direction and went for the ruling government.

Kano jumped off the roof of the carriage and said to the coachman, "We will go to the government at once." ”

When Kano arrived at the ruling government, there were already many people gathered in the square in front of the ruling government. Napoleon also came out, stood on the steps of the entrance of the ruling government, and gave a speech to everyone. He assured everyone that the government would do everything possible to help everyone tide over the difficulties, and hoped that everyone would trust the government and believe in him.

The crowd cheered at Napoleon, and Cano stood by and watched. When Napoleon's speech was finished and the crowd had dispersed, he went to the ruling government and asked to see Napoleon.

Hearing that Cano had come to ask for an audience, Napoleon frowned. Kano is his old superior, this person is a little roundabout, if he sees something in today's affairs, it is not very good. Still, he had Kano invited into his office.

"Your Excellency the First Consul." "I'm seeing a lot of banks have problems today. Many people have lost their life savings because of this, and now the situation is dangerous, what are you going to do? ”

"It really came as a surprise to me, it's just another tulip bulb craze." Napoleon said, "I have decided to put the stock market on pause for three days to avoid excessive panic contagion." At the same time, I also ordered the Ministry of Public Security to speed up the pursuit and crackdown on those who absconded with money. In addition, we will temporarily cut taxes in the hope of stimulating the economy. But Lazar, you know, in terms of the economy, there is only so much the government can do. ”

"And what about the Bank of Rome? They're not going to do something? Kano asked again.

"The Bank of Rome is buying some of the more dangerous banks. But it will also put a lot of pressure on the Bank of Rome. What's more, Lazar, you know that the problems with the banks are not just the problems you just said. Banks are also implicated in factories, which in turn implicate more people's jobs. That's the big problem. If there really is a large number of enterprises that fail, then we ......," said Napoleon, pausing here, "then we may have to expand our army." ”

"Your Excellency, you plan to start a war?" Kano was taken aback.

"No, Lazar, I don't want to. Sometimes, however, the situation pushes us and hopes that we don't get to that point...... These damn Jewish speculators! Napoleon said through gritted teeth.

"We really need to crack down on the Jewish speculators!" Kano also said. There will certainly be many unlucky innocent people who will suffer from the fight against Jewish speculators, but it is better than war.

The next day, Science Pravda published an editorial entitled "Vigorously Rectifying the Financial Order and Ensuring the Stable Development of the National Economy." In this editorial, Science Pravda attributed the current trend to the malicious speculation of some unscrupulous businessmen. At the same time, the editorial also pointed out that these malicious speculation behaviors not only damaged the market, but also violated French law, and what awaits them must be severely punished by the law! Underneath this editorial is the state of emergency order issued by the ruling government, according to which the French stock market will be suspended for three days in order to carry out a general reorganization.

This was followed by a news campaign in Kommersant exposing the criminal practices of some unscrupulous businessmen, most of whom were Jews. Kommersant also pointed out that the first person to start shorting the stock market was the famous Jewish banker Rothschild. Of course, Kommersant also admitted that Rothschild did not carry out any illegal operations, and in this epidemic, he only suffered little damage and did not make any black money. But the practices of other Jewish businessmen were truly abhorrent.

Then the State Council introduced an urgent bill authorizing the establishment of a special court to combat economic crime to combat all kinds of illegal speculation.

The bill was quickly passed, and then a special court for combating economic crime was established. The Tribunal was astonishingly efficient in hanging fifteen Jewish merchants on the first day of its formation, and sending more than sixty Jewish merchants into the mines.

By this time, the economic crisis that began in France had swept across Europe, and the practice of attributing the economic crisis to the Jews had become popular throughout Europe. Everywhere from Petersburg to London, there were fires where Jews were lynched. The frightened Jews fled to Turkey or France.

Yes, flee to Turkey and France. The Ottoman Turks were much more lenient towards the Jews than in Christian countries. Aside from not allowing them to build churches higher than mosques and requiring them to pay a poll tax, they discriminated little against Jews, much less of the kind of persecution they were taken for barbecues.

As for France, France was the starting point of this persecution of the Jews. But compared to the rest of Europe, France is still a civilized country. At least they were going to persecute the Jews and go through the courts. And to be honest, the death penalty imposed by the French courts is really not known to be less than those fires in other countries. The rest is nothing more than hard labor and fines.

Considering that it was almost impossible for Jews who had fled from abroad to France to take part in illegal speculation in France, they were not even liable to death or hard labour when they arrived in France, but at best were fined for illegal entry. Then consider that it is very inconvenient to get to Turkey, because it is necessary to cross a series of heavily fortified borders. By contrast, it is much easier to sneak across the border into France. Therefore, France, which was clearly the first to take the lead in the persecution of Jews, has become the number one refuge for Jews in all of Europe in this epidemic.

Of course, there was a better refuge, and that was North Africa, which was under French control. If you stay in France, you will still be ostracized by the locals, for example, you will be suddenly scolded or even slapped on the street. (The Jews could not fight back, otherwise the police would have unconditionally assumed that the Jews had provoked them.) And in those parts of North Africa, which are jointly controlled by the French and Turks, there is even less such discrimination. So many Jews arrived in France and soon went to North Africa.

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